everything actually important is already metric

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everything actually important is already metric - Lemmy.World

When I was young I lived in Puerto Rico for a few years (1980’s). Milk was sold in either one litre cartons or one gallon jugs. Distances in road signs and road markers were in kilometers but speed was in miles per hour. Fuel was sold in litres but fuel usage is in miles per gallon.
I believe Canada and the UK do similarly.

Milk yes, car distance no, fuel usage no

Km and L/km are used in Canada.

Do you say kilometers per litre or miles per gallon?
No, liters per 100 km, just as I wrote
But just to fuck with everyone we still refer to it a “mileage” in speech. Cause being a Canadian is suffering.